Hot-hitting first basemen pace Elon, North Carolina

Two first basemen who’ve been on tears will be part of tonight’s non-conference baseball game at Elon University’s Latham Park.

Elon’s Ryan Kinsella, who also is a catcher, was named the Southern Confernece Player of the Week on Monday. North Carolina’s Cody Stubbs was picked as Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week.

Elon and North Carolina meet at 6:30 tonight.

Kinsella batted .400 with three home runs and 12 runs batted in across five games last week as the Phoenix went 3-2. Kinsella had a .520 on-base percentage and .950 slugging percentage during the week. He leads the league with 11 homers and 44 RBI.

Stubbs batted .500 in a six-game stretch as the Tar Heels produced a 5-1 record. He drove in 12 runs during that stretch. He holds an ACC-leading .402 batting average and leads the league in RBI with 42.